Asado Recipe

Asado is actually a spanish term cut meats which are cooked in open grill. In Philippines on the other hand, asado is an interesting dish with meat a little bit sweet and soury in taste. We can use the left-over in making the fillings of the popular chinese buns “Siopao”.

Ingredients
a 1 kilo pork (cut in bite size pieces) you can choose the part with some fat and some meat to make the dish much juicy

1 onion, chopped

1head of garlic minced

3 large potatoes peeled and quartered (optional)

3 cups of vinegar
4 tbsp. cooking oil

some salt, pepper to taste

some bay leaf

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

some achute juice for coloring

3 large tomatoes cut into small pieces

2 star anise

2 cups of water

2 tablespoons of brown sugar

1 tablespoon of honey

Procedure:

Put the pork in a saucepan and add vinegar, pepper and half of the pounded garlic. Later, add the salt, bay leaf, star anise, brown sugar, honey and soy sauce. Allow it to boil for 2 minutes.Add 2 cups of water and let boil until pork is tender. Fry the potatoes until golden brown, then set aside. Saute garlic, onion, and tomatoes, then add pork mixture, potatoes and atchuete juice, to the mixture and cook until done. Serve hot.

I just tried your recipe but didn’t follow the 3 cups of vinegar becaue i’m sure it would be very sour and for sure it was a bit sour just by using 6 tbsp of vinegar. I used paprika instead of asuete because I don’t have any. The picture looks so good but not the same when cooked using your recipe. Also, I don’t understand why the potatoes needs to be fried until golden brown.